Пособие по домашнему чтению на английском языке по роману Сомерсета Моэма «Луна и грош» (главы 43–58) = W. Somerset Maugham «The Moon and Sixpence» (C

Федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «РОССИЙСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ ДРУЖБЫ НАРОДОВ»

ИНСТИТУТ ИНОСТРАННЫХ ЯЗЫКОВ

Кафедра теории и практики иностранных языков

Н.В. Болдовская

Пособие по домашнему чтению на английском языке

по роману Сомерсета Моэма «ЛУНА И ГРОШ»

(главы 43–58)

W. Somerset Maugham

«MOON AND SIXPENCE»

(chapters XLIII–LVIII)

Москва Российский университет дружбы народов

2018

CHAPTER XLIII

I. Active Vocabulary. Translate the following wordcombinations into Russian:

to remain obscure to find motives

to throw off the yoke to acquire proficiency to be irksome

II.Answer the questions using suggested words and wordcombinations:

1.Did the writer understand Strickland’s determination to become a painter? What motives could he think of? Were the facts much duller?

a strong vocation in boyhood the necessity of earning a living to abandon the facts unsuitable mate

to throw off the yoke

2.Note the abundant use of the Subjunctive constructions in the chapter. What is their role? Did the writer know much about Strickland’s life for some years?

to lose sight of someone to acquire proficiency

to have effect on one’s character to acquire experiences

to be single-minded self-conscious devoid of charm

3.Did the writer really know much about Strickland’s life with Blanche? How does grammar help you to prove it?

at one’s disposal to pass the time

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to live side by side

to be an instrument of pleasure the blindness of love

to have violent passions

4. Did Strickland care about fame? What epithets does the author use to describe him?

III. Additional Vocabulary

to fan a fire into a bright fame – раздувать огонь picaresque novel – авантюрный, плутовской роман

to fathom the subtleties of human heart – понять тонкости человеческой души

IV. Give a Summary of the Chapter.

CHAPTER XLIV

I. Active Vocabulary:

1.to have a wit – быть остроумным

2.by no means – ни в коем случае

3.to explain oneself - выразиться

4.at length - подробно

5.a vision of the world – мировоззрение

II.Answer the questions using suggested words and wordcombinations:

1. What were Strickland’s views on painting? Was he interested in Impressionists?

to have no wit sardonic humour by no means

a man of intelligence to hold forth at length to make copious notes

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2.What did he think of the old masters? to have a great but impatient admiration to be delighted by

to move someone to ecstasy to describe with coarseness

3.Why did Strickland like Brueghel the Elder? to have vision of the world peculiar to oneself

to make copious notes

to excite someone’s sympathy

III. Additional Vocabulary repartee – находчивость

to hold forth at length – долго разглагольствовать to make copious notes - делать подробные записи

IV. Find sentences containing emphatic constructions.

What part of a sentence is emphasized? Change emphatic wordorder of the sentences into an ordinary one. Translate them into Russian.

V. Give a Summary of the Chapter. Name it.

CHAPTER XLV

I. Active Vocabulary. Find the following word-combinations in the text. Reproduce the situation with them.

1.to be harassed by somebody/something

2.to see smth with one’s mind’s eye

3.to drive the matters out of one’s head

4.a magic wand

5.to vanish from the view

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II.Answer the questions using suggested words and wordcombinations:

1. Did Strickland find himself in Tahiti?

Find instances of metaphors that are used to describe realization of Strickland’s dream.

Translate the sentences into Russian.

2.What makes the description of the sea romantic?

What devices contribute to this?

Why is Murea isle called “a Monserrat of the Pacific”?

3.What is Maugham’s impression of Tahiti?

Translate the description of the island into Russian in writing. What stylistic means help the author to create the atmosphere of excitement?

III. Find sentences containing emphatic constructions.

What part of a sentence is emphasized? Change emphatic wordorder of the sentences into an ordinary one.

IV. Translate the following sentences from English into Russian and back:

1.It is then that he decided to start painting.

2.It was not till I saw his apartment that I believed he went to Paris not because of a woman.

3.It was Dirk Stroeve who was the first to recognize Strickland’s talent.

4.It was Stroeve who helped Blanche when she was in need.

5.It is in Tahiti that Strickland painted his most famous pictures.

6.It is there that he felt absolutely free.

V. Give a Summary of the Chapter.

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CHAPTER XLVI

I. Active Vocabulary:

1.to put on airs – задирать нос

2.to turn an attentive ear – слушать внимательно

3.at any rate – в любом случае

4.to walk up and down - ходить взад-вперед

5.to rise to one’s feet - встать

6.the triumph of spirit over matter

II.Answer the questions using suggested words and wordcombinations:

1.Why did Captain Nichols come to the writer? Describe his appearance.

to have breakfasted to be a teetotaler

a man of average height a lined face

shifty eyes bedraggled suit

to give an ingratiating smile

2.Where did Captain Nichols meet Strickland? What did the writer think of beach-combers?

to be in predicament beach-combers

to put on airs

to turn an attentive ear

3.Why did Captain Nichols leave England?

persons of his kidney the victim of injustice

4. Was Captain Nichols a happy man? Why did Maugham call him “a married bachelor”? How did he describe his wife? to be frightened to death of somebody

the triumph of spirit over matter

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III. Translate the following sentences into Russian:

1.“It was a matter upon which he was reticent, and with persons of his kidney a direct question is never very discreet.”

2.“He could as little escape her as cause can escape the effect”.

IV. Additional Vocabulary: a teetotaler – трезвенник bedraggled – испачканный ingratiating – заискивающий

predicament - затруднительное положение beach-comber – бродяга

reticent - скрытный

discreet – сдержанный, тактичный

V. Give a Summary of the Chapter.

CHAPTER XLVII

1. Active Vocabulary. Translate the following wordcombinations into Russian:

1.to keep body and soul together

2.pauper and vagabond

3.to walk to and fro

4.wretched outcasts

5.there and then

6.the well-to-do

7.into the bargain

8.without more ado

9.to take to doing smth

10.now and then

11.to take a stroke of luck

12.to be as lively as a cricket

13.to do someone in

14.to look for trouble

15.on a sudden

16.to make for

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II. Answer the questions using suggested words and wordcombinations:

1.Where did Captain Nichols first see Strickland? to keep body and soul together

paupers vagabonds wretched outcasts there and then

2.How long did they stay in Marseilles?

to spend time in one another’s society in the pursuit of money

to get a night’s lodging the pangs of hunger

the low life of a seaport town the well-to-do

3.Where did they go after Asile de Nuit? What role did Tough Bill play in Strickland’s life?

to seek hospitality sailors’ boarding-house into the bargain

to sign on with a ship without more ado

to have no patience with obstinacy to be adrift

4.What was their life like after Tough Bill flung them out? Was it full of hardships?

to provide a wedge of bread to tramp the streets

now and then odd jobs

to have a stroke of luck

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5.Why did Tough Bill swear to do Strickland in? to run into smb

to curse smb

to call smb pretty near every name bloody swine

to put up with humiliation to swear

to do smb in

6.What was the atmosphere in the bar?

to wear nothing but a shirt now and then

deafening noise cat-calls

the din to and fro

7.Describe the fight with Tough Bill. to be three parts drunk

to look for trouble

an angry altercation (quarrel) a hefty fellow

to stand no nonsense from the customers to turn on one’s heel

to catch sight of smb to spit full in smb’s face a hellish row

on a sudden

8.Why did Captain Nichols advise Strickland to get out of Marseilles?

vindictiveness

to have a bit of luck

to double down to some place to sign on

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